With its celebrated predisposition to toilet humour, Darwin's NT News had made sure readers aren't torn between options.

Read the paper or - as Winston Churchill once said - "put it behind you"?

No problem, with the News Corp Australia masthead bringing its own solution to the country's rush on toilet paper - eight (almost) blank pages.

Tweets from the northern capital suggest the problem may be imaginary, but if it got readers into the shops, so much the better!